Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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Anyone have recommendation for sci fi shows or movies for the wkend?
You seriously need to see this. It's an animated Aliens short fan film. It's all animated by one guy, the one who did the TIE Fighter and the R-Type animations if you've seen those. The animator perfectly nails the Ridley Scott atmosphere of the first film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShGElGusepA
Also, watch the new Dune movies if you haven't. In June I re-rented the first movie and I have to say that I enjoyed it a lot more the second time around. (I hated the gender swap of Dr. Kynes the first time, but the second time I saw it I'd already relaxed.)
Christopher Walken plays the Emperor, which my friend and I found to be particularly ironic since he was in that Fatboy Slim music video for "Weapon of Choice" in which he dances in that empty hotel. The lyrics go "Walk without rhythm and you won't attract the worm," which is a Dune reference. So him playing a role in the second Dune movie somehow brings this full circle for some LULZ.
I would recommend the Russian movies "Coma", "Attracttion" (2017) or "Blackout"
i have seen both, Coma and Blackout, and they were good.. i haven't heard of attraction
Attraction is a two part movie, I think the second part has its own diffent name.
Stargate SG1 along with episode pointers from Q-esque MJ12 PDF
Stargate universe
Battlestar Galactica 2004
The Expanse
Torchwood Children of Earth
Counterpart
Westworld
Humans
Black Mirror
Altered Carbon
Farscape
Babylon 5
Stranger Things
Rick and Morty
V (1983)
Xfiles
Firefly
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Twin Peaks
Doctor Who (Before all the blatant faggitry)
Not really sci-fi, but notable:
Man in the high Castle
Lost (fast forward thru secondary drama like the Koreans etc)
Life on Mars
Fauda
Mr Robot
The Blacklist
NCIS
Dexter (until you get tired of it)
Hell on Wheels
Fringe
I frickin' LOVE the X-Files. When I was in college in the '90s, I lost track of the show since I was working on campus every Sunday evening. I was turned off by how the original two actors had been replaced and that never works (reminded me of Dukes of Hazzard in that way). But I ended up really enjoying those later episodes. My favorite was the one about that mysterious Brady Bunch house that ejected people into the air.